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For 7 minutes 20 seconds this far-ranging conversation not only took poetry's relevance as a given but got strength from what they found there: "It's so dark...it's remarkable," said Hass of Ledford's poem, which includes the lines "like/slapping the moron beside the bully, we invade Babylon to/applause."

Carol Muske-Dukes: Varied Carols Carol Muske-Dukes 2011

Carol, I know your work as Poet laureate of California, with the Get Lit program and others, has you dealing with poetry's relevance on a daily basis.

Carol Muske-Dukes: Varied Carols Carol Muske-Dukes 2011

Even readers who need the literal translation can feel something of the poetry's loveliness in Italian, how the vowel-music opens its airy spaces round the lament, makes elegant the complexity of allusion.

Love in literature 2011

Of course, there's also the wonderful poetic tradition of resistance, that poetry's purpose is to be purposeless: "not mean/But be" as MacLeish wrote; "Poetry makes nothing happen," Auden.

Carol Muske-Dukes: Varied Carols Carol Muske-Dukes 2011

But in most discussions of the poem this tension is ignored and only poetry's alleged social impotence remains.

Keeper of the Affirming Flame Brad Leithauser 2011

Shakespeare's singing charmers from Macbeth and Sexton's "lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind" are some of poetry's most infamous witches.

Halloween Poems Collected By The Poetry Foundation The Poetry Foundation 2010

Or is the system an absolute negation of how we should conceptualize poetry's role in the larger society?

Anis Shivani: Poetry Book Contests Should be Abolished: Why Contests Are the Stupidest Way to Publish First Books Anis Shivani 2011

Ms Hadfield, who will make the selection, said: 'I've always loved the idea of sneaking poetry into unexpected places ... proving that poetry's place is in the real world, in real time.'

Bards in the Bog (Scotland) 2009

Or is the system an absolute negation of how we should conceptualize poetry's role in the larger society?

Anis Shivani: Poetry Book Contests Should be Abolished: Why Contests Are the Stupidest Way to Publish First Books Anis Shivani 2011

But today, in our culture, poetry's relevance is in doubt to many: look no further than the recent Tea Party flare-up against the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, the largest annual poetry festival in the country.

Carol Muske-Dukes: Varied Carols Carol Muske-Dukes 2011